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Bearing the Kings Pardon in 1718 to bring to the pirates along with the commission to be the Governor of the Bahamas, Rogers successfully rooted out the pirates and fought off the Spanish but was given nothing but debt and financial ruin for his trouble. Sailing to Nassau with seven tall ships, Rogers arrived on July 22nd, 1718 and blockaded ...
Woodes Rogers and his Family. An early conversation piece by Hogarth showing the family of Woodes Rogers (circa 1679-1732), a famous Bristol seaman and later Governor of the Bahamas. Rogers is seated to the right facing left, wearing a jacket, breeches and a cloak draped over his right knee. He wears a full wig, buckled shoes and holds a pair ...
British sea captain and governor of the Bahamas. This page was last edited on 11 January 2024, at 15:42. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
On the evening of July 26, 1717, Captain Woodes Rogers arrived at the harbor of Port Nassau in the Bahamas. He had just been declared Governor of the Bahamas, and he was dispatched from Bristol, England, with two Royal Navy sloops, a transport ship filled with supplies, another ship of colonist civilians, and a writ from King George granting him power over the colony.
7 de sept. de 2021 · Illustration. A 1729 oil painting by William Hogarth showing Woodes Rogers (seated), 1679-1732, and his family. Rogers was a former privateer, navigator and writer who was appointed Governor of the Bahamas in 1718. He was instrumental in stamping out piracy in the Caribbean. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Woodes Rogers (c. 1679 – 1732) was an English privateer, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas, and a member of the West Indies Rite of the Templar Order. He was eventually expelled from the Order for continuing to trade in slaves. Rogers joined the Royal Navy in his twenties and rose through the ranks to a Captain. He also inherited his father's shipping company and earned a fortune ...
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who was twice appointed as the Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He was the captain of the ship that rescued Alexander Selkirk, a Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years marooned on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. His plight later inspired writer Daniel Defoe to ...
